Romans 11:19
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
KJV
ἐρεῖς οὖν, ἐξεκλάσθησαν κλάδοι ἵνα ἐγὼ ἐγκεντρισθῶ.
Greek NT
Dices ergo : Fracti sunt rami ut ego inserar.
Vulgate
Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
ASV
Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
κλάδος
klados
noun · 11×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
ἐγκεντρίζω
egkentrizo
verb · 6×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκκλάω
ekklao
verb · 3×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§755"The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been planted by the heavenly cultivator. Yet the true vine is Christ who gives life and fruitfulness…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210219.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Cross-references
- Rom 11:11 — I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
- Rom 11:17 — And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Rom 11:23 — And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.